defection

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Recent Examples of defection His defection was followed by that of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who later led the freedom fighters to victory against the French and declared Haiti’s independence. Marlene L. Daut september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 There would be another high-profile defection from the Tories to Reform. Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025 Short-term savings often lead to long-term customer defection. Talbott Roche, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Quizzed about a potential defection at the press conference, Payne shutdown the rumors. Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for defection
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defection
Noun
  • The diehard climate activists have an orthodoxy from which even the slightest deviation is apostasy.
    Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Whether his parents realize the extent of his apostasy isn’t clear.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Putin said Ukraine’s armed forces had a grave lack of manpower and desertions, while Russia had enough soldiers.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Mobilization has stalled, with brigades undermanned, and desertion in the ranks is a mounting problem.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike his isolated vote in 2006, the schism runs much deeper now.
    Frederic J. Frommer, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In her autobiography, Mabel Dodge laid the blame for her schism with Stein firmly on one person.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Assa Diawara, 30, was taken into custody early Wednesday in Queens on charges of abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the New York Police Department.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • She was arrested on charges of abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child early Wednesday morning, an update from the New York Police Department said.
    Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second major structural change involves one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to SARS-CoV-1: initial scission at the S1 furin cleavage site.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Wilson cautions more work is needed to explain how exactly spin results after scission.
    Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Summer Walker has addressed the infidelity accusations surrounding her ex-boyfriend Lil Meech.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Left-wing ideology accounted for 65, with other motivations, like foreign nationalism, Islamism, and separatism, accounting for the rest.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Under Erdogan, Turkey has long supported different Islamist factions to further its strategic interests, especially the goal of countering Kurdish separatism on its southeastern periphery.
    Kamran Bokhari, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Read on to find out what contestants from across the country believe to be some of the greatest misconceptions about pageantry.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Many CEOs could have been overwhelmed by the daunting challenge of simultaneously mastering media misconceptions on multiple fronts.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Defection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defection. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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